On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 22:18 -0400, David Boles wrote:
A sensible person would run CentOS, or RHEL, or one of the many
others, for a server. It would be foolish to run any distro, such as
Fedora, there are many others, in a production type situation.
Something that changes as often, as quickly, and a radically as Fedora
does not, would not, be a good choice for a stable LAN or production
system.
I could imagine the situation where you run a fairly simple server, one
that does just one or two things (like a webserver without extensive
databases), and if you were an admin that were always keeping up to date
with updates, that there's not a great deal of difference between
updating a collection of RPMs, to updating all of them with a new
distro.
But once you make a server complicated (throw in mail, databases, user
file storage, etc.), rapid distro updating does become a much greater
nuisance, and you will want a base system with a longer life.
I can't say that I've really come across updates that made a system
unstable or plain broken. And that sort of thing could just as easily
happen while updating packages on another distro with a longer life than
Fedora.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686
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